Steve Israel

Steve Israel (30 May 1958-) was a member of the US House of Representatives (D-NY 2) from 3 January 2001 to 3 January 2013 (succeeding Rick Lazio and preceding Peter T. King) and from NY 3 from 3 January 2013 to 3 January 2017 (succeeding Peter King and preceding Thomas Suozzi).

Biography
Steve Israel was born in Brooklyn, New York City in 1958 and raised in Levittown, Long Island, and he served on the town council of Huntington before being elected to succeed Republican US Senate candidate Rick Lazio in the US House of Representatives in 2000. He was a supporter of the Iraq War and of Israel, but he supported the Occupy movement on Wall Street. He retired in 2016.